Date: Saturday, November 25, 2006
Time: 3pm to 5pm
Place: Moses Music, 9106 International Avenue, Oakland, CA
Talib Kweli is set to participate in a community press event that groups hope will connect local groups’ campaigns around displacement to Gulf Coast Disaster; The groups will use this time to reflect and also demand the convening of an international tribunal.
Kweli and local groups and activists have organized the event to stand in solidarity with the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition (PHRF/OC), Survivors for Survivors Inc, and the International Tribunal on Katrina.
3:00 – 3:15: Opening
3:15 – 3:30: Open Mic/Cultural Performance
3:30 – 3:45: Press Conference featuring local evacuees, community activists and Talib Kweli
3:45 – 4:00: CC Campbell-Rock representing Survivors for Survivors Inc.
4:00 – 4:15: Just Cause Oakland
4:15 – 4:30: Closing
This event is endorsed and organized by: Bay Area Katrina Solidarity Committee People’s Hurricane Relief Fund, 1418 N. Claiborne Ave, Suite 2, New Orleans, LA 70116, (504) 301-0215 – www.peopleshurricane.org/ – Common Ground, 1415 Franklin Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117, (504) 947-0270 –www.commongroundrelief.org/ – Just Cause Oakland, (510) 763-5877 – University of Berkeley Black Graduate Students Association, (510) 544-9045 Berkeley City College Black Student Union, (510) 338-8521- Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, (510) 222-1100 – The International Tribunal, www.peopleshurricane.org/international-tribunal/
